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With the LTE World Summit coming up next week, there will be much discussion about voice and video over LTE as well as voice and video over WiFi. I’ll be writing some blogs about those topics in the weeks to come. There is no doubt that voice and video over LTE and WiFi is increasingly emerging;...

An IP Packet exchange (IPX) is a private managed network, defined by the Groupe Speciale Mobile Association (GSMA), over which service providers can offer network connectivity and service interworking on a commercial and competitive basis between not only mobile operators, but also fixed and converged...

Last week we made it about halfway through SmartPhoneMan’s day. Let’s finish his day. Right now, he’s in a rush to get home for the fantasy baseball draft. Everyone is scattered across the country and uses different methods to call in – people call in from POTS phone, though not...

Media servers play an important role in enabling many of the real-time communications applications many of us use every day. When you retrieve a voice mail, have an email read back to you while in the car or get on a conference call, a media server is involved. Media servers provide the back-end voice...

Mobile World Congress is right around the corner . While there are some constants, such as crowds, lots of walking, even more meetings and those ubiquitous cheese and/or jamon sandwiches for lunch, there are changes in messaging from year to year. This year’s theme is “The Edge of Innovation”...

Standard telephony is considered a commodity. To grow beyond this, innovative developers and service providers have made attempts at Value Added Services (VAS) for decades. These VAS have manifested in many forms over the years, including Color Ring Back Tones, voice portals, and other creative Interactive...

VoLTE doesn’t just mean Voice over LTE. It also means Video over LTE. IMS/LTE includes support for IR.94 which describes how to make conversational video calls over LTE. Video has been possible over 3G networks. However, monetization of video calls has proven elusive and companies that catered...

A few weeks ago, I attended a new developer show in Madrid called TADHack . It’s a smaller event and very different from the average conference. As soon as I walked into the venue, I noticed this weird green hue, kind of like I was in the Wizard of Oz. It had the feel of a nightclub, which was...

Mobile World Congress is buzzing along. It is a mass of mobile communications humanity, all crisply dressed and swiftly moving along like a flash flood in an Arizona wash through both the Barcelona subway system and the venue at the Fira. The 2014 Mobile World Congress theme is “Creating What’s...

Mobile World Congress is happening this week, and the excitement is palpable here at Dialogic—and not just because it gets us to Barcelona for four days. We’re looking forward to a jam-packed schedule of demos, meetings and speaking sessions, with a special eye out for information about hot...

I spent the summer engorged in analyst research. It was all over my office. It was in my briefcase. It was on my computer and iPad. It was in my head. It was on the plane with me. It was home with me. It was even on my deck with me. All in the name of business planning. As its part of my job, it's...

I’ll be speaking at the upcoming IT Expo West show in Las Vegas on August 27, where one of the topics I’ll be presenting on is, “How to make video part of your mobile strategy.” Mobile video is one of the most significant parts of the smartphone experience. YouTube’s...